Laszlo Vajda - Host City speaker

Laszlo Vajda

Position: Senior Operations Advisor, Minsk 2019 European Games Senior Expert, Beijing Organising Committee for the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games

Laszlo Vajda started his involvement with the Olympic Movement at the Hungarian National Olympic Committee in 1991.

As a member of the Hungarian Olympic Team management, he participated in the 1992, 1994, 1996 and 1998 Olympic Games, at the last two editions as the Assistant Chef de Mission.

In 1998, he was recruited by the Sydney 2000 OGOC, followed by Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. He was Senior Expert at BOCOG advising the Board and the CEO directly.

From 2008, Laszlo worked for five consecutive Olympic Games bid committees as the International Strategist and Communications advisor: Tokyo 2016, PyeongChang 2018, Madrid 2020, Beijing 2022 and as the bid’s Vice Chairman for Budapest 2024.

Laszlo also worked as senior operations and international relations advisor to Nanjing 2014 YOG and the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.